Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page.

The Jesup Sentinel Office in the Jesup House, fronting on Cherry street, two doors from Broad 81. PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY, ... BY ... T. P. LITTLEFIELD. Subscription. Ratos. (Postage Prepaid.) One year $2 00 Six months 1 00 Three months 50 Advertising Rates. Per square, first insertion $1 00 Per square, each subsequent insertion. 75 £Sfr“Special rates to yearly and large ad- Tertisers. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—W. H. Whaley. CouncLlmen—T. P. Littlefield, If. W. Whaley, .Bryant George, O. F. Littlefield, Anderson Williams, Clerk and Treasurer —O. F. Littlefield. Marshal—G. W. Williams. COUNTY OFFCERS. Ordinary—Richard B. Ht>pps. Sheriff—John N. Goodbread. Clerk Superior Court —Benj.O. Middleton Tax Receiver—J. C. Hatcher. Tax Collector—W. R. Causey. County Surveyor—Noah Bennett. County Treasurer—John Massey. Coroner —D. McDitha. County Commissioners—J. F. King, G W. Haines, James Knox, J. G. Rich, Isham Reddish. COURTS. Superioi Court, Wayne County—.Tuo. L. Harris, Judge ; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor- General. Sessions held on second Monday in March and September. BMsliear, Pierce Comity G-eonia. TOWN DIRECTORY. TOWN OFFICERS. Mayor—R. G. Riggins. Counoilmen—D. P. Patterson.J. M. Downs, J. M. Lee, B. D. Brantly. Clerk of Council—J. M. Purdom. Town Treasurer—B. D. Brant'y. Marshal—E. Z. Byrd. COUNTY OFFICERS. Ordinary— A. J. Strickland. Clerk Superior Court—Andrew M. Moore. Sherifl—E. Z. Byrd. County Treasurer—D. P. Patter.on. County Servevor—J. M. Johnson. Tax Receiver and Collector—J. M. Pnr dom. Chairman of Road Commissioners—llßl District, G. M., Lewis C. Wylly; 12 : 0 Dis triet, G. M., George T. Moody ; 684 District, G. M., Charles 8. Youmanns; 590 District, G. M., D. B. McKinnon. Notary Pnblios and Justices of the Peace, etc —Blaekshear Precinct, 684 district,G.M., Notary Public, J. G. S. Patterson ; Justice of the Peace, A. R, James; Ex-officio Con stable E. Z. Byrd. Dicksonfs Mill Precinct 1250 District, G. M , Notary Public,Mathew Sweat ; Justice of the Peace, Geo. T. Moody; Constable, W. F. Dickson. Patterson Precinct, 1181 District, G. M., Notary Public, Lewis C. Wylly; Justice f the Peaoe, Lewis Thomas; Constables, 11. Prescott and A. L. Griner. Schlatterville Precinct, 590 District, G. M., Notary Public, P. B. McKinnon; Justice of the Peace, R. T. James; Constable, John W. B< oth. Courts—Superior court, srce couuty, John L. Harris, judge; Simon W. Hitch, Solicitor General. Sessions held first Mon dry in March and September Corporation court, B - “ , Ga., session held second Saturday i Month. Police court sessions every Mo., y Morning at 9 o’olock. JESUP HOUSE, Corner Broad and Cherry Streets, (Near the Depot,) T. P- LITTLEFIELD. Proprietor. Newly renovated and refurnished. Satis faction guaranteed. Polite waiters will take your baggage to and from the house. BOARD $2.00 per day. Single Meals, 50 ct;. CURRENT PARAGRAPHS. Southern News. At Shreveport 40 negroes have signed to go to Liberia. Apples are selling in Danbury, N. C., at two cent* per bushel. Three judges of the superior court have died in Georgia this year—Clark, Pee ples and Hill. Pet rattlesnakes in Jacksonville have been known to appear in as many as three new suits with'u the same year. Red river land that has been in culti vation one hundred years, produces ears of corn eight inches long and ten in circum ference. A circular addressed to the negroes of De Soto parish, La., closes thus: As the Egyptians took their journey from Egypt to the land of Canaan, so we will takeonr journey from America to the land of Liberia. While Louisiana and southern Missis sippi have lost from ten to fourteen days in cotton picking from heavy rains, cen tral Texas has been suffering for the want of rain and had a continuous cotton picking season. The disease at Port Royal has devel oped into genuine yellow fever, and Sa vannah has been called on for physicians, nurses and such other aid as she can con veniently furnish. Augusta has estab lished a rigid quarantine. Joel Collins, the leader of the band of highwaymen that robbed the Union Pa cific train, and whe was killed near Buf falo station, Kansas, is the son of Albert G. Collins, one of the oldest and most respectable farmers of Dallas county, Texas. Savannah News: Chinquepins are now opening their bris’lesand chestnuts are getting ripe in North Georgia,and it is a fact that some of the counties in tha northeast portion of the state make almost as much by the latter natural crop as they do by agriculture. The venerable Judge Barnard Hiil died on the bench at Knoxville, Georgia, the 27tb, of apoplexy. The Macon Telegraph says of him: His death is a great loss tc the city, the county, the circuit and the state, and will be mourn ed far and near as a public sore v. He was a man who had won. by a 1- ng life ot arduous labor, one of the high -si posi tions in the judiciary of the state. Asa lawyer he stood very eminent. A UTi ;.e boy on his way to mill, near McMinnville, Tenn , went under a VOL. 11. tree to pick up some apples, and found several pieces of silver. These he carried home, when a further search was made, and over six hundred pieces of silver, buried thirty-five years ago by an old mise,r, were unearthed. Five sugar houses were burned on the Teche, Louisiana, on Friday last, and property to the value of $150,000 de stroyed. The fires are attributed -to negro incendiaries, and it is believed that it was but a part of a general and diabol ical plan of arson. The fires all occurred n the same neighborhood and at the ame ho ur. v Chattanooga Times: We learned last night from a friend, whose business re quires him to be frequently among the farming communities, that there is an unusual breadtfi of land sown in wheat so far this fall, and that a good deal of the early sown is now up and looking finely. Nashville American: While excava ting a cellar at Hart & Hensley’s pork packing establishment the workmen came across a densely crowded Indian grave yard, where whole skeletons were found, the heads lying toward the east. With them were found the usual earthen pot tery. The workmen saved the skulls, and at last accounts were peddling them out for a nickel apiece. Alas, poor Yorick 1 General. The number of those who, like Mrs. Gen. Gilflory, go abroad, is yearly in creasing. This season, from New York alone, eighty-one thousand passengeis have sailed for Europe. Over one-fourth of this number landed in England. Pigeon races are in vogue in York state. At a recent contest in which the birds flew from Homer, New York, to Scranton, Pennsylvania, they averaged a mile a minute, which is considered fast flying. Sixty-eight miles an hour was made some years ago, and this is said to be the fastest flight on record. Ye who wish to view Mars’ moons, prepare to see them now. Not ten tele scopes in the world can show them, and by the end of October they will disappear from the range'of the Washington refrac tor, the largest telescope of the kind yet mounted, They will be again visible, for a few weeks, in the autumn of 1879, and next time in 1892. Frugal as badgers, industrous as bees, they undersell every labor market they enter, and outdo every civilized artisan at his own trade. Any one who sees a Japanese carpenter at work, with his toes for a vice and his thighs and stomach for a bench, has seen tools well used and goods equal to European turned out. They will, in fact, become formid able rivals of all kinds of western manufactures. —Birmingham Post. New York is proud in the possession of its new time hall, which is at last in operation. The ball Is made of gilded wire, weighing about thirty-five pounds, three feet and six inches in diameter and falls about, twenty-five feet. The time of the falling is recorded by electricity in the main operator’s room by the most accurate of instruments. The object of this is to give the public at large, and particularly the seamen in port, an oppor tunity to get the correct standard of time. The Chinese government is making strenuous efforts to put down the ever increasing vice of opium smoking in the Flowery Kingdom. An imperial edict has been issued partially prohibiting the use of the narcotic. The evil is to be gradually weeded out. At present all shops are shut up excepting those on the main thoroughfares, and these have their privileges greatly restricted. After three years the complete prohibition will take place. Fears of an uprising prevent the attempt to shut up the shops at once. At the close of the present congress, in 1879, twenty-four senators will go out, ®f whom eighteen are republicans and six democrats. They are as follows, in eluding the late Senator Bogy, whosb place will be filled by a democrat: Spencer (rep.), Alabama; Dorsey (rep.), Arkansas; Sargent (rep.), California; Chaffee (rep.), Colorado; Barnum (dem.), Conneticut; Conover (rep), Floriaa; Gordon (dem.), Georgia; Oglesby (rep.), Illinois; Morton (rep.), Indiana; Allison (rep.), Iowa; Ingalls (rep.), Kansas; M’Creery (dem.), Ken tucky ; Dennis (dem.), Maryland; Bogy (dem ), Missouri; Jones (rep,), Nevada; Wadleigh (rep.), New Hampshire; Conkling (rep.), New York; Merrimon (dem.), North Carolina; Mathews (rep.), Ohio; Mitchell (rep.), Oregon; Came ron (rep.), Pennsylvania; Patterson (rep.), South Carolina; Morrell (rep.). Vermont; Howe (rep.), Wisconsin. Rclitfion*. The Presbyteriana announce that there were fifty conversions at their camp meetings in Texas. The American Baptist Home Mission society announces its intention to open a new school at Natchez, Miss., for the education of colored preachers and teachers. There are 37.3 churches in Rome, of which 365 are Catholic; fourteen Protes tant, and four Jewish. There is one Protestant church to every 20,000 of the population. There are in the United States and Canada, 800 Young Men’s Christian as sociations, with a membership of 100,000 and owning property to the extent of $25,000,000. The belief that babtism ought to be administered by immersion, with the face downward, has spread among the south ern negroes, and in Raleigh, recently, fifty-one negroes chose that mode. In no part of the country has the Protestant Episcopal church advanced more radidly than in New York state. In 1875 there were but five clergymen in this State ; now there are 718 in the five dioceses, with 78,644 communicants. Two Seventh-Day Babtists were re cently fined five dollars each in a town in central Pennsylvania for working on Sunday. They refused to pay, and were sent to jail for four days. They claim that the state law of 1794 is unconstitu tional, and that it is opposed to any .-Sab bath at all, since it abolishes the Sabbath of Scripture and ordains anew one, wlych is really no Sabbath. JESUP, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1877. Personal The young Napoleon styles himself Napoleon IV. Alexander H. Stephens kicks the beam at mnetv-eight pounds. The salary ot Marshal MacMahou is SIBO,OOO as president of the French Re public. .T. Q. Smith, late commisioner of in ternal affairs, has been appointed consul general to Canada. Oliver Dalrymple, the “ wheat king of Minnesota,” has four thousand acres of wheat this year. The widow of the confederate cavalry leader, general J. E. B. Stuart, is a teacher in the Staunton Seminary for girls. Rev. I)r. Taylor says the-unlicensed grogshops of New York, il placed in u row, would fill one side of a street twenty miles long. Governor Wade Hampton has a rosy and genial face, pleasent blue eyes, iron gray whiskers, a portly figure and a full and agreeable voice. Professor Schneider, the leader of the marine band of Washington, will resign and go to London. The band will be dissolved because of the order reducing it from fifty-two to thirty men, and cut ting down the pay. Near Avon, Mo., is a Miss Evans, who is a curiosity. She is only ten years old, but is, probably, the largest girl of her age in the world. Her height is about five feet, and she weighs one hundied and forty eight pounds. Her features are even and pretty, and her manner is lively. One would take her to be about eighteen. She can do more work, notwithstanding her superabundance of flesh, than most girls at twice her age. A son of the late John Y. Mason of Virginia, is serving as a captain in the French army, in which he gained dis tinction during the Franco-Prussian war, receiving from Louis Napoleon the decoration of the Legion of Honor. Mrs. Custer has written a very hand some letter to Hood’s Texas brigade, acknowledging their resolutions honoring her husband’s memory. She says: “It seems to prove the higher and better nature of men when soldiers can admire the gallantry and heroism of each other, even when differing ill sentiment and belief.” Professor Swing commends the south ern Methodist Conference, which has had the courage to suggest that pulpit orators should avoid “a frequeut drink ing of water during sermons,” and should “not finger the leaves of the Bible, nor pound the desk while preaching,” and that the congregation should “wear coats to church and walk in softly—not like mules on a bridge.” Foreign 1 1 rnw, An English scientific paper tells us that torpedoes are beginning to lose their prestige, and already it is said that a mechanic employed in the Chatham dockyard has invented a screen or shield for protecting the whole bottom of a ship. The shieldisofsufficientsubstance to resist any torpedo, can be raised or lowered in five m-nutes, ami stowH away snugly on the teq sides of an ironclad. The latest reports about the potato crop in England are the worst of all. Ac cording to the London Garden the result is *‘ total destruction.” For twenty years there has been no attack of disease “so swift, so general, and so complete. Large plots of potatoes, sound and healthy to-day, are converted into masses of rotten stems and putrid tubers to morrow. ” The crops looked very flour ishing five weeks ago ; but the almost incessant rains have been destructive. Nothing but a severe drought can save potatoes enough for seed. The prospect is gloomy in the extreme. Industry and Stupidity of the Bulgarian*. Headquarters life, dreary as it is here, is likely to become drearier when we move nearer Plevna. The villages in this immediate vicinity may be described briefly as rich and dirty. The farmers have hundreds of stacks of grain in their yardsand scarcely any article of furniture in their houses. The Bulgarians strike me as a people who sit down hut little. Such a piece of furniture as a chair is almost unknown among them. The beds in some of the cottages are made of baked earth, arranged in the form of a shelf near a huge window, through which cool breezes blow; but in winter there is nothing to do hut to retreat to a kind of cellar. It is to he hoped that one result of the advance of the Russians will be to farther the civilization of the people in this section. They have many virtues but no graces. The women are indus trious beyond praise. If they walk from one village to another they twirl their distaffs all the way, and when their household duties are over and they are talking by the fountains or in the little groves they are busily knitting. They are avaricious here, and that which seems most to annoy them is that they should be asked to yield up some part of their store,although, let it be understood, they are always well paid for everything that is taken. Some of them do not comprehend the value of money, and lookstupidlyatitwhen it isputinto their handß. They have never made any effort to assemble stores for the Russians or to aid them in any way other than hv show ing the roads and warning them of the approach of the enemy. Sometimes, in despair, one feels like comparing them to the water buffaloes. Those noble animals appear to resent any attempt to maxe | them decent or lively a:s an insult to their j moral character. —Edward Kinrj i letter | BotUm Journal An old hat, so banged and rusted as j to have entirely lost its individuality, was found near a stream in New Hamp ; shire, and led to the story that secretary i Evarte had been foully made away with. Patient. I was not patient in that olden time, When my uuchasteued heart liegan to long For bliss that lay i eyoud its roach ; my primo Was wild, impulsive, passionate and strong. I could not wait for happiness and love, Heaveu-seut, to come and nestle in my breast; I could not Tv alizo how time might prove That patient waitiug would avail me best. “Let me be happy now," ray heart cried out, ' la mine own way.aud with iny chosen lot; The future is too dark, and full of doubt, For me to tarry, and I trust It not. 'Fake all my blessings, all 1 am ami have, But give that glimpse of heaven before the grave!" Ah me! God heard my way ward, coltish cry, And taking pity ou my blindod heart, Ho bade the angel of streug grief draw nigh, Who pierced my bosom to its tenderest part. I drank wrath’s wine-cup to the bitter lees. With strong amazement and a broken will; Then, humbled,straightway fell upon my kuees, And God doth know my heart is kneeling st 11. I have grown seeking ic: '0 chose Mineown blind lot, buttake that God shall send In which, if what 1 long for I should lose, I know the loss will work some blessed end, Some better fate for mine and me than 1 Could ever compass undornentb the sky. —All the Year Round, ONE NIGHT. BY MISS GOAN. It was a night in 1856, hut v.hoof that company of hoys and girls will ever forget it ? We had come on foot, from our homes on the seashore, six miles distant, to watch the most magnificent fire that ever burned. It burst out suddenly, in the dead of night, from a mountain fourteen thousand feet high and thirty miles away —so suddenly that the glare woke us iu stantly. From our windows wc watched the great torrent of lava creep down the side of the mountain like a fiery snake. At the base of the mountain it plunged into a tropical jungle, at which it knawed for thirteen months. Had it eaten its way through this belt of timber it would have flowed to the sea and destroyed Hilo, the largest and most beautiful vil lage on the island of Hawaii. Maune Loa, or Long mountain, is in the Hawaiian islands, and about once in every eight years it treats the inhabi tants to a grand eruption. Now, there’s a great deal of fun to be gotten out of a volcano that is kind enough to come within reach and allow itself to be played with. If the lava spouts from a crater you can’t i>oke it with long sticks, and the heat makes you stand at a very respectful distance; but if it flows on to a plain and spreads itßelf out, then there’s fun for you ; at least so we children thought in 1800. The night of which I write was a beautiful one. Millions of stars were shining over our heads, and as many millions, it seemed to us, on the earth beneath. At our feet, and stretching away for miles and miles, was the vast, black lava flow, dotted all over witli light that had not yet gone out. The stream where lie found it in the woods, was about a mile wide ; in some places it was miles wide. Lava, on a plain, moves very slowly and peculiarly —not at all as a great mass of molasses would, for instance—it cools too quickly for that. And so there was no danger in going directly up to the flow and camp ing in its path. We camped, that is we got out our supply of iron spoons, copper and silver coins, cut long poles from the forest trees, tied pocket handkerchiefs with eye-holes in them over our faces, and sat down close to the great black stream that looked so dead. It had piled itself up, all along the line of advance, making a sort of wall from one to several feet high. By-and-by, a spot on this cooled surface began to move and throb and lilt itself as though there was a living thing under neath, struggling to get out. -Suddenly a crack opened and a gallon or more of red-hot lava gushed out, turning red a'most instantly, it cooled so quick. The moment the crack opened we plunged in our sticks and spoons and dipped the lava out. It cooled so rapidly that we had hardly time to mold our “ speci mens.'’ We rolled the lava on the ends of our burning sticks, over and over on the rocks, forming it into cylinders. The spoonfuls we let cool in the spoons to show that it was dipped up while liquid. We jammed coins into red hot lumps of lava, where they became firmly im bedded. Sometimes we all poked awsy at one opening in the flow, and then, of course, the hoys got the best of it; and some times we were lucky enough to have an opening apiece, where we could work without interference. We ran our sticks full length into these cracks and drew them out flaming from end to end, show ing that beneath the surface the stream of lava was molten, it was only a thin crust that covered the fire, as ice covers deep water, and though this bore our weights it was too hot to walk upon; it scorched our shoes. One of the boys took a running step or two on the red hot lava, and even that was thick enough to bear him up. A little lava only flowed from a crack and cooled; this, in its turn, burst open and sent out a little more, and in this slow way the stream pushed itself along. Sometimes it would not advance half a mile in weeks. Once, while we were watching its curious behavior at some distance, it crept quietly around the rick on which we stood, and almost made tie prisoners. A few nimble steps, for it was hot, and we were safe on the rocks beyond. By-and-by the cry was raised that the lava bad gotten into the bed of a river near by, and was flowing along in a solid mass like thick molasses; that it would soon reach a precipice about thirty feet higli and pour over it into a deep basin of water. Off we ran, dropping every hing, to the spot. [jure enough ! soon, on the top of the precipice, a great muss of fiery-red lava lifted itself, hung a minute and then plunged over into the water. There was a great cloud of steam and a roar and hiss as though wild animals were attack ing each other. Thq water fought bravely, but it was of no Hse —it could not put the fire out. The lava poured into it until not a drop was left and the basin was filled with solid rock. The night air was filled with the sound of falling trees. The lava surrounded them, cut them off like an axe, and they went crashing down. Sometimes they lay unsinged upon the cooled lava; sometimes they were burned as they fell, and sometimes they went down on fire from top to bottom. We walked four or five miles on the flow, picking our way between the dan gerous hot places. It was the most difficult kind of walking. Cooled lava is not smooth like ice, hut is piled up in all sorts of ways. You go up hill and down hill, around fissures that you can not jump, and over those that you can. Down many of these we saw molten lava, and out of many that look cooled we draw our nlpen-stooks ablaze. AVhen breakfast-time came we hunted up a good, hot crack and cooked our breakfast in it. We boiled eggs and made tea and coffee over volcanic fires. The natives, when they are near the volcano, always roast their meats in steam cracks. We trudged back to Hilo, laden with specimens, and well satisfied with our night’s work. The great How. moved on slowly for about a week longer. It tumbled over one more precipice, filled up the basin at its foot, and then stopped for ever—stop ped within six miles of our beautifu homes, and just as we were making up our minds that it would destroy Hilo, and that we must fly. Oil, those sleepless nights, when the light was so bright that it seemed as though everything was on fire ; and days of anxiety as word came of the lava’s steady advance! But it stopped, and this flow now forms a protection to Hilo, for another stream ol lava could not go over it, hut would bo turned aside by it. —Christian Wee Mg. Georgia Antiquities. Near the close of a spring day in 1776 Mr. William Bertram, who, at the request ot Dr. Fothergill, ol Lon don, had been for some time studying the flora of Carolina, Georgia and Flor ida, forded the Broad river, just above its confluence with the Savannah, and be came the guest of the commanding of ficer at Fort James. Bertram made an excursion up the Savannah river ‘‘to inspect some remarkable Indian monuments” four or five miles above the fort. Of them he writes as fol lows: ‘‘These wonderful labors of the ancients stand in a level plain very near the bank of the river, now twen ty or thirty yards from it. They con sist of conical mounds of earth and four square terraces, etc. The great mound is in the form of a cone, alsmt forty or fifty feet high, and the cir cumference of its base two or throe hundred yards, entirely composed of the loamy, rich earth of the low grounds; the top or apex is flat; a spiral path or track leading from the ground up to the top is still visible, where now grows a large, beaulifu spreading red cedar (Juneripus Amer icana); there appear four niches ex cavated out of the sides of the hill, at different heights from the base, fronting the four cardinal points; these niches or sentry boxes are entered into from the winding path, and seem to have been meant for resting placesorlookouts. The circumjacent grounds are cleared and planted with Indian corn at present, and 1 think the proprietor of these lands who accompanied us to this place, said that the mound itself yielded above one hundred bushels in one season. The land hereabouts is indeed exceeding fertile and productive. Ancient burial places, the sites if old villages, traces of open-air workshops for the manufacture of implements of jasper, quartz, chert and green and soap stone, refuse piles and abandoned fishing resorts are by no means infrequent along both hanks of the Savannah river for many miles. Upon the advent of the European the circumjacent valley was found cleared and in cultivation by the red men, who here had fixed abodes and were associated in considerable numbers. The southern tribes in the -ixteenth century subsisted largely upon maize, beans, pumpkins and melons. These they planted, tended and harvested regularly. Of their agricultural labors at the dawn of the historic period we have lull accounts So august are the proportions of this largest mound that we are persuaded it rise* beyond the dignity of an artificial place of retreat, elevation for chieftain lodge or mouud of observation. It ap pears entirely probable that it was a temple mound, built for sun worship, and that it forms one of a well ascer tained seiies of similar structures still extant within the limits of the southern states. — Au/jutta ( G 0..) Chamicle. A Picture of Russia. ± A few words on the condition of Rus sian peasantry, who constitute three fourths of the whole population, may not be uninteresting. A traveler cannot traverse the country without having forced upon him ttic conviction that the condition of tho peasantry is most deplor able. In all of the rural districts, and some of the places called towns, the homes of the people are low, miserable looking wood shanties, surrounded by the evidence* ot only a semi-civilization. The war enabled us to to see the (feasants in large numbers, as ’squads were at uearly every station, awaiting transpoi tation to some military base, where they are uniformed and sent to the front. Almost every man was dressed in a rough, gray material resembling the poorest blankets, and this, together with the dirt, his uncut, cmrse hair and l>eard, and physiognomy without a gleam of in telligence, completes the picture of a people whose condition is apparently the lowest in Europe. These are the mil lions formerly known ns serfs, and though they have been emancipated, their free dom is 8h yet only nominal. The execu tion of the emancipation act entailed such a heavy financial burden on the government through compensating land owners, that the serfs are required to repay the enormous sum before they can leave their respective communes. Un der the plan now being pursued, the al ready impoverished serfs can scarcely liquidate the debt in less than fifty years. In addition to this burden they have an other equally onerous one on their slender incomes, and that is the church. A monk or nun is stationed at every shrine to solicit contribution* or money for can dles, and every sanctuary is loaded with gold, silver, jewels and art decorations. The supremacy of the church over its devotees is most absolute, and some of the forms of worship are not only nearly allied to idolatry, but many simply dis gusting. 1 refer in the first case to the full-robed waxen images of canonized personages, and, in the second, the habit ofkissiug the dried hand, skull, or some other relic of the person of departed pa triarchs. These relics are arranged in their appropriate plaees in either caskets, together with gorgeous vestments placed as if ou a corpse. 'The h|K)lh kissed so much by unwashed people are, of course, much soiled, so that it is revolting to see one after another press forward to touch the lipa. These and similar forms are practiced by the church, whose head is the enlightened and progressive Emperor Alexander 11. Philadeljihla Bulletin Is, tier. A Remedy l-'or Divorces. Marry in your own religion. Never both bo angry at once. Never taunt with a past mistake. Let a kiss bo the prelude of a rebuke. Never allow a request to be repeated. Get self-abnegation be the habit of both. A good wife is the greatest earthly blessing. “ I Forgot,” is never an acceptable excuse. Tf you must criticise, let It he done lovingly. Make a marriage a matter of moral judgment. Marry into a family which you have long known. Never make a remark at the expense of the other Never talk atone another, either alone or in company. Give your warmest sympathies for each other’s trials. If one is angry, let the other part the lips only for a kiss. Neglect the whole world beside, rather than one another. Never speak loud to one another un less the house is on fire. I.et each strive to yieldof'tenest to the wishes ef the other. Always leave home with loving words, for they may he the last. Marry into different blood and temper ament from your own. Never deceive, for the heart, once misled, can never trust wholly again. It is the mother who moulds the character and fixes the destiny of the child. Never find fault unless if is perfectly certain a fault has been committed. Do not herald the sacrifices you make to each other’s tastes, habits or pre ferences. Let ali your mutual accommodations l>e spontaneous, whole-souled and free as air. The very felicity is in the mutual cultivation of usefulness. (tonsillt one another in all that comes within the experience, observation or sphere of the oilier. A hesitating or gram yielding to the wishes of the other always grates upon a loving heart. Never reflect on a past action which was done with a goo! motive, and with the t-st judgment at the time. Russian to Turk, who receives a bavonet-thrust—“ But, my poor Turk, you don’t appear to object!” Turk— ‘‘lt is the first time in eight days that anything has gone into my stomach.” GRAVE AND GAY. To Holt All Tastes. A Minnesota poet tunes his sounding lyre to bar vest notes, and sings : There’s music In tho sough of the winds; Thore’s grace In the waving grain; Broad acres atint with the bay God’s gold * In their ripening oriflamuie. Now, why couldn’t he go right on, without rack log his brain fur new rhymes, and Hing ; Itcady the reaper stands; lie lists To the thresher's clattering hunt: And lie waves alolt in hts brawny fists The harvest of oriliiun. Here and tit-re in the reckless world Stocks go up and stocks go down, But care from his happy heart is hurld By the sight of the oiitloun. Anil when at eve, at the ret of sun, Swiftly ho hastes to bis home; His day is spent, Ids wore is done. Ami ho has no use for an oritlome. . If you do not want to be robbed of your good name, do not have it painted on yotir umbrella. .. It is the admirer of himself and not tho admirer of virtue who thinks himself superior of others. ..“White lies,” says the New York Herald, “ roll themselves into cocoons, and next year they come out handsome, full-fledged, wing.y old whoppers.” .. la>t a grown person cry with half the strength, volume and frequency of a babe and he would kill "himself in 24 hours Who can explain this appalling mysteryt T ‘ Thank heaven,” sobbed Ann Eliza as she perused the most reliable intelli gence concerning the prophet’s last will anti testament. “ Thank heaven, he has left me something; he has left me out.” Dandks, to make a great show, \Vear coats stuck out with pads and puffing; Add this is surely apropos, For what’s a goose without the stuffing ? What better reason can you guess Why alien are poor, anti ladles thinner; But thousands now for dinner dress ’1 ill naught is left to dress for dinner. ..A Philadelphia dancing master is said to be about introducing anew dance expressly for fat people. All the per formers have to do is to sit and kick. NO. 8. (Joseph - may hie trlbo docreaae— A woke ohh nißht from a dream of peace, Ami naw Get). Howard ninety mileH wont. An-! Hit id, 14 Poor man, let's give him rent.’ Graphic., . .Meanness and conceit are frequently combined in the same character ; for he who, to obtain transit applause, can be indifferent to truth, and bis own dignity, will be as little scrupulous about them if, subserviency, he can improve li’s con dition in the world. . .A man recently wrote to the officials of the Boston, Oouoortl and Montreal railroad “ for a chance to run on the road.” He was told ho could “ run on the road” as much as he liked if ho would only keep out of the way of the trains. Knowledge of the world mu“t be combined with study, for this, to well as better reasons ; tho possession of learning is always invidious, and it. requires con siderable tael to inform without aVlFplav of superiority, and to ensure esteem, well as call forth admiration. .The failure ot the mind in old ago often less the result of natural decay of disease. Ambition lias ceased to operate: contentment brings indolence; indolence decay of mental power, ennui, and sometimes death. Men have been known to die, literally speaking, of di - ease induced by intellectual vacancy.— Sir Beniamin Brodie. . There was a silence in the school. The teacher hud struck the bill calling nttten tion, el every eye was bent on her. This was a favorable opportunity for the spread of information, and one of the lit tle hoys perceiving it, raised his hand. “What is it, Johnny?” asked the eacher. “ Tommy Migg’s father’s cow lias got a calf,” shouted the excited youngster, his face aglow with the intelli gence. The teacher wilted. —Danbury News. .. For two years Miss Minnie Walters of Harrisburg, had scarcely left her bed, owing to a diseased spine, an eminent surgeons applied heated irons, and told her that nothing more could he done. Hhe became resigned and bore her suffer ings with Ghristian fortitude. One day she prayed that the Lord would raise her up and heal her. Suddenly she felt herself growing stronger, and almost in stantly she was restored to health and enabled to attend a prayer-meeting. She related the miraculous cure to ft Methodist congregation in Columbia* Pa., on a recent Sunday. N. Y. Tribune. A Lion-Tanior’s Feat. Kan Francisco Post: Perhaps the moHt magnificent act of heroism ever performed in this vicinity was witness:d during the performance of a circus at Reno on Saturday last. The lion-tamer was giving an exhibition of liin control over the ferocious brutes under his charge, when suddenly he was observed |to turn pale and tremble. The largest lion of the six in the cage bad displayed I unusual sullenness and anger, and now refused to obey his master. With glar ing eyes it crouched in the corner, and evidently meditated a spring. The trainer recovered his self-possession in a moment, and, keeping his eye firmly fixed upon that of the huge beast, dealt it a terrific blow with his rawhide over the face. With a fierce snarl the in furiated lion bounded forward. Catch ing one ef his open jaws in either hand, the powerful man held the brute off for a desperate moment by main strength. An electric thrill of horror ran through the crowd which surrounded the cage in an instant. The beasts in the other dens shrieked and roared in chorus, ft is in a moment like this that the real heroic element, asserts itself. Without turning his head in the I ast, the brave man firmly whispered, ' pass me a small boy. One was instantly secured and crowded Lb rough the bars. With one super human effort the trainer thrust the boy into the hot, closing jaws, and then bounded lightly aside. A snarl, a lew savage crunches, and the beast turned again to his prey. But the hero was gone. The door snapped behind him, and gasping “ saved !” he fainted in the I arms of the cheering concourse.